Old News from 20e and later

Snapshot 2014-09

The 2014-09 snapshot has been released. See the release notes for details, but here is a quick summary of the changes between this snapshot and the previous snapshot.

• Deprecated FLOAT-TRAPPING-NAN-P in favor of FLOAT-SIGNALING-NAN-P. Signaling NaNs? are also now printed with "Signaling" instead of "Trapping".
• FP exceptions are handled better on the ppc port.
• The compiler can now derive the type of ROUND.
• Fixed an issue with multi-processing destroy-process doesn't take effect for a schedulable processbecause it has no run-reason and/or arrest-reason.
• Tickets #105, #84, #101, #106, and #100 have been fixed.
• A few issues with fdlibm not signaling FP exceptions have been fixed.

Snapshot 2014-08

The 2014-08 snapshot has been released. See the release notes for details, but here is a quick summary of the changes between this snapshot and the previous snapshot.

• Updated to ASDF 3.1.3.
• More consistent results for the special functions because all platforms now use fdlibm.
• Consing for the trig functions is greatly reduced since we use fdlibm instead of a Lisp implementation.
• Source location information has been added for DEFINE-CONDITION. (From Helmut Eller.)
• The lisp binary is now compiled to use SSE2 on x86 machines. CMUCL won't even start now if you do not have SSE2.
• CLEAR-OUTPUT will now actually clear any pending output that has not been flushed. Previously, CLEAR-OUTPUT did nothing.
• For Gray streams, CLEAR-OUTPUT will clear output instead of calling STREAM-FORCE-OUTPUT.
• A critical bug in KERNEL:DOUBLE-FLOAT-BITS on x86 has been fixed. In some situations, KERNEL:DOUBLE-FLOAT-BITS would cause a segfault.

Snapshot 2014-07

There was no snapshot made for this month.

Snapshot 2014-06

The 2014-06 snapshot has been released. See the release notes for details, but here is a quick summary of the changes between this snapshot and the previous snapshot.

• An error in printing MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM has been fixed.
• A style warning is now issued when using T or OTHERWISE in ECASE and friends. (Ticket #98)

Snapshot 2014-05

The 2014-05 snapshot has been released. See the release notes for details, but here is a quick summary of the changes between this snapshot and the previous snapshot.

• Support for x87 has been dropped. This snapshot and future snapshots will be no longer include support for x87 and will require SSE2 support.

Snapshot 2014-04

The 2014-04 snapshot has been released. See the release notes for details, but here is a quick summary of the changes between this snapshot and the previous snapshot.

• Support for x87 is being dropped. This snapshot will be the last snapshot that includes support for x87. All following snapshots will only run on x86 chips that support sse2.
• Type derivation for log reverted; (log -0d0) must be -infinity + i*pi to be able to compute the special functions correctly on the branch cuts.
• (log -0w0) returns values that correspond to (log -0d0).
• More missing double-double float constants are added like DOUBLE-DOUBLE-FLOAT-POSITIVE-INFINITY.

Snapshot 2014-03

The 2014-03 snapshot has been released. See the release notes for details, but here is a quick summary of the changes between this snapshot and the previous snapshot.

• RUN-PROGRAM accepts :ELEMENT-TYPE to specify the element type for the streams that are created.
• Lisp-unit (a Lisp framework for testing) has been added as a contrib. Use (require :lisp-unit) to compile and load it. Unlike asdf and defsystem, precompild fasls are not included.
• Type derivation for log was not consistent with the values actually returned by log. This is corrected now.
• Double-double floats were missing the constants describing various limits such as LEAST-POSITIVE-DOUBLE-DOUBLE-FLOAT. These are added now.
• When reading very small floats values, the reader will round to least-positive float if possible. Otherwise an error is still signaled.

Snapshot 2014-02

The 2014-02 snapshot has been released. See the release notes for details, but here is a quick summary of the changes between this snapshot and the previous snapshot.

• Micro-optimizations in arithmetic vops for x86/sse2, reducing the number of memory loads in some cases.
• Run-time checks for zero pages are now disabled; the lazy zeroing of heap pages has been the default for some time without problems, so the run-time check is disabled.
• A serious error in the complex multiply vop on sparc has been fixed.

Snapshot 2014-01

The 2014-01 snapshot has been released. See the release notes for details, but here is a quick summary of the changes between this snapshot and the previous snapshot.

• The trig functions sin, cos, and tan are faster now and more accurate.
• A bug in CIS introduced in the 2013-12 snapshot has been fixed.
• DISASSEMBLE:DISASSEMBLE-FUNCTION, DISASSEMBLE:DISASSEMBLE-MEMORY, and DISASSEMBLE:DISASSEMBLE-CODE-COMPONENT accept the :BASE, :CASE, and :RADIX keyword arguments, like DISASSEMBLE:DISASSEMBLE does.
• Improved speed for some SSE2 VOPS.
• Values on the branch cuts for the inverse trig and hyperbolic functions match the definitions. If there is a difference between the CLHS and formulas, we choose the formula.
• Updated support for Mac OSX 10.5 and gcc 4.8 on ppc.

Due to the bug in CIS introduced in the 2013-12 snapshot, the 2013-12 snapshot is deprecated.

Snapshot 2013-12

The 2013-12 snapshot has been released. See the release notes for details, but here is a quick summary of the changes between this snapshot and the previous snapshot.

• The compile can derive the result types of DECODE-FLOAT.
• CIS uses the faster C library routine sincos when available.
• create-target.sh accepts -h and -? options to print out some help.

Snapshot 2013-11

The 2013-11 snapshot has been released. See the release notes for details, but here is a quick summary of the changes between this snapshot and the previous snapshot.

• ASDF 3.0.3.
• Optimizations for x86 (ported from sparc and ppc).
• Numbers will be printed with lower case letters when :PRINT-CASE is :DOWNCASE.

CMUCL 20e released

CMUCL 20e has been released, For information on the changes between 20e and 20d, we refer the reader to the 20e release notes.

Because of the release, there will not be a 2013-10 snapshot.